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U Florida team using fungi to extract cobalt and lithium from waste batteries

Green Car Congress

A team of researchers University of South Florida is using naturally occurring fungi to drive an environmentally friendly recycling process to extract cobalt and lithium from tons of waste batteries. We were watching the huge growth in smartphones and all the other products with rechargeable batteries, so we shifted our focus.

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Debunking the "Electric Cars are evil due to Cobalt" argument!

Plug In India

4] 95% of Cobalt in battery packs are recycled. [5] 5] Atrocities of the OIL industry EV FUD creators cry about Lithium or Cobalt battery manufacturing and conveniently don't talk about the terrible practices by the oil industry. 4] 95% of Cobalt in battery packs are recycled. [5] Good luck recycling that Cobalt into anything.